'And so I do,' said Katie, now bursting out into tears, overdone by her emotion and fatigue; 'and so I do--and I do love him, and will love him, if he's ever so much a rake! But you know, Linda, that is very different from being in love; and it was very ill-natured of you to say so, very.' Linda was out of bed in a trice, and sitting with her arm round her sister's neck. 'Why, you darling little foolish child, you! I was only quizzing,' said she. 'Don't you know that I love Charley too?' 'But you shouldn't quiz about such a thing as that. If you'd fallen into the river, and Harry had pulled you out, then you'd know what I mean; but I'm not at all sure that he could have done it.' Katie's perverse wickedness on this point was very nearly giving rise to another contest between the sisters. Linda's common sense, however, prevailed, and giving up the point of Harry's prowess, she succeeded at last in getting Katie into bed. 'You know mamma will be so angry if she hears us,' said Linda, 'and I am sure you will be ill to-morrow.' 'I don't care a bit about being ill to-tomorrow; and yet I do too,' she added, after a pause, 'for it's Sunday. It would be so stupid not to be able to go out to-morrow.' 'Well, then, try to go to sleep at once'--and Linda carefully tucked the clothes around her sister. 'I think it shall be a purse,' said Katie. 'A purse will certainly be the best; that is, if you don't like the slippers,' and Linda rolled herself up comfortably in the bed. 'No--I don't like the slippers at all. It shall be a purse. I can do that the quickest, you know. It's so stupid to give a thing when everything about it is forgotten, isn't it?' 'Very stupid,' said Linda, nearly asleep. 'And when it's worn out I can make another, can't I?' 'H'm'm'm,' said Linda, quite asleep. And then Katie went asleep also, in her sister's arms. Early in the morning--that is to say, not very early, perhaps between seven and eight--Mrs. Woodward came into their room, and having inspected her charges, desired that Katie should not get up for morning church, but lie in bed till the middle of the day. 'Oh, mamma, it will be so stupid not going to church after tumbling into the river; people will say that all my clothes are wet.' 'People will about tell the truth as to some of them,' said Mrs. Woodward; 'but don't you mind about people, but lie still and go to sleep if you can. Linda, do you come and dress in my room.' 'And is Charley to lie in bed too?' said Katie. 'He was in the river longer than I was.' 'It's too late to keep Charley in bed,' said Linda, 'for I see him coming along the road now with a towel; he's been bathing.' 'Oh, I do so wish I could go and bathe,' said Katie. Poor Katie was kept in bed till the afternoon. Charley and Harry, however, were allowed to come up to her bedroom door, and hear her pronounce herself quite well. 'How d'ye do, Mr. Macassar?' said she.